Quotes by Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

— Bill Gates

Success

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

— Bill Gates

Success

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

— Bill Gates

Success

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

— Bill Gates

Life

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

— Bill Gates

Happiness

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

— Bill Gates

Life

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

— Bill Gates

Success

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

— Bill Gates

Success

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

— Bill Gates

Success

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

— Bill Gates

Wisdom